Sharp County record., 1887-11-24

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
AN English syndicate IS preparing 10
I'M n transcontnental railway in Mex
leo from Vera Cruz to the Pacific ocean.
LATE news from France indicates
crisis in public affairs near at hand and
the resignation of President Grevy very
probable.
THE inter-provincial conference at To-
ronto, Ont, passed a resolution on the
10Th strongly favoring UNRESTRICTED re-
ciprocity with the United States.
THE Utah Supreme Court, by unanimous
decision, has agreed to appoint receiver
for the Mormon church property in excess
of the limit fixed by Congress in 1882.
RETURNS from ninety counties in Iowa,
complete vote, or by majorities, give
plurality for Larrabee of 1850: remaining
nine counties may reduce this by 1,5o or
1900.
A SITE has been decided upon for the
great Protestant Episcopal Cathedral In
New York City near the northwestern
corner of Central park. The cost will be
about $850,O 600.
THE trade returns between Canada and
g., tln 1ag HCno UnQ
show considerable falling off in imports,
while the exports maintain the average
of recent years.
A CABLEGRAM from Macclesfield, En-
gland, on the 9th, announced the death OF
John Ryle, of Paterson, N. j. He was the
father of the silk industry in this country
and was on visit to his birth place.
GENERAL JOSHUA 7. OWEN died at his
residence at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia,
on the 7th at the age of sixty-two years.
He rendered distinguished military
services on the Union side during the war.
AT violent meeting of Anarchists at
Marseilles, France, on the 9th, resolu'
ton was adopted to warn American
agents in France of vengeance in the
event of the execution of the condemned
Chicago Anarchists.
THE Steamer City of Chester, which ar
rived at Queenstown from New York on
the 9Th, encountered terrific gale on the
VOYAGE, lasting from the 3D. to the 9th
inst. Immense seas swept the decks and
two lifeboats were crushed.
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80 Iar /, tiU dis
tressed over the condition of her husband
and son. The newspapers unanimously
ask that regular bulletins signed by the
doctors be issued, in order to put an end
to the confusing unofficial reports.
THE leading topic of conversation
among the Anarchist leaders in New
York. on the 7th, was the finding of the
bombs in the cell of the condemned An
archst Lingg. All of the leaders agreed
that it was job put up by the police.
PROF. SToRK, the Austrian doctor who
makes speciality of throat diseases, in a
lecture at Vienna on the 9th, created
sensation by declaring that the German
Crown Prince is suffering from cancer,
and that DR.. Mackenze's treatment is
entirely wrong.
MRS. CLEVELAND and her mother, Mrs.
Folsom, were rendered q reception by Mr..
H. H. Huston at his country residence at
Overbrook, Philadelphia, on the 7th. The
affair, although rather informal in its
nature, was attended by many prominent
society people of the city.
THE irritabilty in the Crown Prince
Frederick Williams throat has almost en-
tirely disappeared, but his physicians
still insist that he must have absolute
quiet His family, as all others, avoid
speaking to him as much as possible. He
passes his evenings listening to music.
AFTER a long and bitter controversy
between the l. quor League and the law
aud order advocates at Evansville, Ind,
the metropolitan police commissioners
have issued an order for the closing of
liquor saloons on Sunday and certain holi- |
days, and between II p. m. and a. m. of |
week days.
THE fire record for October shows the |
losses in the United States and Canada to
be 50, 769. S25 against loss Of $4,000, 900 in |
October, 1886, and $4,000 in October, |
1885. The total for the first ten months of |
the current year foot up $l02, 1858, 1926 |
against 500, OOJ for the corresponding
period of 1856.
THE motion for stay of execution in the
omnibus Doodle case was up for hearing
in Chicago on the 7tb, before Judge Jami-
son, and was overraled. The defendants
were each sentenced to two years. i'm.
prisonment. The defense asked permis-
sion to file bill of exceptions and was
given twenty days to do So
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY decided on the 10th
to commute the sentences of Schwab and
Fielden to Imprisonment for life, and de.
ciined to interfere with the cases of Par
sons, Engel, Spies and Fischer. Louis
Lingg committed suicide in Jail on the
10th, by exploding a illuminate cap in his
mouth.
LOADED dynamite bomb was found on
the morning Of the Sth on West Van Buren,
street, Chicago, not far from polling
place where voting was in progress. The
bomb was made out of large gas
pipe and was eight inches long. The ends
were closed with brass taps screwed firm
ly on. The fuse was attached at the CEN
tire of the bomb.